| The Effects of Breast Self-examination Program Enriched Environmentally among Healthy Women |
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Kyung Yeon Park, So Hee Kim |
1Department of Nursing, College of Medical and Life Science, Silla University, Korea. kypark@silla.ac.kr
2Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, Dong A University, Korea. |
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| Abstract |
PURPOSE
The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of an environmental enrichment program on barrier, benefit, confidence, and compliance of breast self-examination in women at 3 months after instruction.
METHODS
Nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design was conducted among 62 healthy women. Data were collected through the self-reported questionnaires from December 2008 to March 2009. Women were assigned to one of two treatment groups: (a) no-support of environmental enrichment with the instruction control group; (b) the support of environmental enrichment with the instruction experimental group. All women received the same instruction on breast self-examination once a week for two weeks. Data were analyzed with paired t-test, McNemar test and ANCOVAs of controlling for age run using SPSS/WIN 17.0.
RESULTS
The experimental group was significantly lower than control group on perceived barrier (F=5.91, p=.02) and higher than control group on compliance of breast self-examination (F=4.57, p=.04) after environmental enrichment program. However the environmental enrichment program did not make significant differences on benefit (F=0.01, p=.91) and confidence (F=0.77, p=.38).
CONCLUSION
Findings suggest that the environmental enrichment should be needed to support women's breast self-examination and expanded for compliance of breast self-examination to promote the secondary prevention of women breast cancer. |
| Key Words:
Environment; Breast self-examination; Barrier; Confidence; Compliance |
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